2017-03-15
19 分钟Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
When Liza Munroy decided to get married in her early twenties to a man who could never be with her completely, she didn't care.
Her husband needed her in ways only she could provide.
Malin Ackerman of the Showtime series billions reads us Liza's essay Elvis and my husband have left the building.
My ex husband is gay, and I knew it when I married him.
We were only 23 at the start of our promising careers, but he, alas, was at the end of his student visa.
So I married Ricky to keep him from being sent back to his gay, intolerant muslim homeland, where he'd have to live a life of lies, secrecy, and fear.
I acted out of love, no compensation requested or received.
We simply got in the car, drove northeast out of Los Angeles, and 5 hours later Elvis was singing I'm in love.
I'm all shook up as we danced down the aisle of the little white wedding chapel, me in a hot pink slip dress and my groom in his brown leather jacket, ribbed cream turtleneck, and khakis.
When we reached the altar, the Elvis impersonator stopped his hip swinging jig.
Do you promise to polish each other's blue suede shoes?
I beamed at my almost husband.
I do.
Do you promise to walk each other's hound dogs?
Of course, Ricky said.